Michel
Aoun is an enigma, a man who made his reputation
as a staunch supporter of a Lebanon free from
Syrian influence.
I am
sure that the thousands of people who rallied at
the presidential palace in 1990 still recall the
virulent rhetoric spewing in spit showers of
anti-Syrian ramblings. I certainly can’t forget, I
was there on a sunny day when my school took a
field trip to Baabda palace to support the
“General”. And I certainly can’t forget the bold
statements over a spate of self effacing speeches;
“I am the captain of this ship (Lebanon) and this
captain will never abandon this ship” or more
hopefully declared “The Syrian nail has begun to
shake”.
Statements like these could not have had more
irony than a steel plant in full production. Not
only did Aoun grab the first chance to scurry out
of the besieged ship to the safety of a Parisian
pad leaving virtually everyone on the ship,
including the rats, but that infamous Syrian nail
only shook with the force of its subsequent
pounding into the last free enclave of a soon to
be annexed Lebanese state.
Now
the return.
The
curtain rises with a third of the Lebanese
population, over a million people, taking to the
streets in the culmination of the cedar
revolution. Naturally, here comes Aoun, Jaunty
Jolly, waving his big patriotic flag and taking
credit once again.
But
wait!
First
Let us back up for minute to the years Mr. Aoun
spent in Paris. Let us revisit the drive by the
USA to pass the Syria Accountability Act and the
push to bring about the Liberation and sovereignty
of Lebanon; specifically to get rid of armed
elements and rogue forces (Hezbullah) operating
inside Lebanon.
Here
again was the self-aggrandizing General Aoun and
his cohorts beating their chests and making King
Kong look like he was only giving himself a
mammogram. They huffed and they puffed and they
blew the Syrian house down by claiming to have
supported, lobbied and even co-wrote the Syrian
Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty
Restoration Act along with congressman Elliot
Engel.
Aoun
it seems is a big proponent of the famous Lebanese
adage translated loosely here “Oh King, who
crowned you? I crowned myself and nobody
questioned me.”
As
Aoun spent his time fomenting in Paris, releasing
statement after press conference after live phone
call, after press conference after statement and
taking credit after credit after credit, Hezbollah
cemented and cemented and cemented.
They
cemented their underground bunkers, their hidden
terror camps, their relationship with Syria, with
Hamas, with al Aqsa, with Iran. They cemented
their storage rooms filled with newly delivered
Iranian rockets via Syrian FedEx; they even
cemented the evidence of the marine barrack
bombings in one of their political party social
programming new hospitals.
All
kidding aside,
Enter
the Dragon. Or shall I say Drag queen?
The
man in the dress, Hassan Nasrallah spewed
vitriolic, hatemongering, hitleresque rallies
against the USA, and Israel. He organized, with
the help of half of Ain el Helwe and the Syrian
transportation system’s busses and all the
bedraggled Syrians contained within them, a
massive outpouring of love for Syria in a bid to
stem the deluge of patriotism of the Cedar
revolution.
He
failed, thank God or shall I say Allah.
Now
that we have returned to Lebanon almost 16 years
to the date of Aoun’s bid to become a Democratic
dictator, we find Mr. Aoun again plotting
something.
He
wants to President. Oh God does he want to be
president. It seems he got a taste for that Palace
and all the adoring crowds.
But
Life has a way of uncovering the truth in ways
that make us smile and even when it is tragic.
Good
old Aoun can now be seen with the strangest of
bedfellows. In fact he now is proposing marriage
to a man in a dress and a beard. Not surprising
for one whose sanity has always been slightly in
question.
Let
us put aside for moment that Aoun allied himself
with every Syrian lackey in his bid to win as many
electoral seats in parliament as possible.
He
could have some brilliant political maneuver we
cannot see.
Let
us put aside that he is currently stonewalling and
dividing the Christians once again as he did over
16 years ago in the darkest chapter of Lebanese
history.
He
claims now to be the leader of the Christian
street.
Let
us even forget that he is the last brick
bolstering the removal of the Syrian mongrel Emile
Lahoud from office.
He
claims that he is for a new president but only
when the country is ready to have one.
Let
us forget all of those things for a brief moment.
What
we absolutely, certainly, unequivocally cannot
afford to forget anymore is a very simple thing -
OUR FUTURE IS ON THE LINE AND MICHEL AOUN
THREATENS IT.
I ask
all of you who read this to sit for one moment and
ask yourselves the following question. Better yet
ask a Aoun supporter the following question.
If
General Michel Aoun had so much to do with the
drafting of the Syria Accountability Act, how come
he is now allying himself with Hizbullah?
It
might be that he is ready to do absolutely
anything to become a president even at the expense
of Lebanon’s budding independence.
Or
more likely, knowing a few FPM supporters;
It
could be that he just mistook him for a younger
cross dressing Santa.
P.S
It is a known fact in the code book of
intelligence services that “ the best agent is
the one who has no idea that he is actually acting
as an agent”
